Page 28: of Marine Technology Magazine (March 2006)

AUVs; ROVs; UUVs

Specific explorations will continue to be selected on the
basis of a peer-reviewed proposal system.

Many questions remain unanswered as to exactly how
this new paradigm of global ocean exploration will be
implemented by an oceanographic community that is
accustomed to carrying out research-guided programs
using a very different paradigm. Hopefully the ocean
community will turn to examples from their colleagues in

NASA's Space Program who have been using the
exploratory paradigm successfully for many years.

An additional benefit of this "tele-presence" technology
is the ability to use NOAA's real-time exploration to
excite and motivate the next generation of ocean explorers
through a series of "live" educational programs being pro-
duced and distributed by a newly formed Marine